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CHARLOTTE, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- The following is a copy of a speech, as prepared for delivery, by
The Honorable Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General of California, at
the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, September 5, 2012:

On behalf of the great
state of California, I thank you for the honor and the privilege to
be here. Let's get right down to business.

We are here because we
love our country, and we firmly believe in the American ideal that
our country should work for everyone. That ideal is written into our
laws, the rules of the road that create a level playing field in
this country. Those are the rules I became attorney general to
uphold. And those are the rules Mitt Romney would have us roll back.

He would roll back the
rules that protect the air we breathe and the water we drink. Roll
back the rules that protect the health and safety of women and
families. Roll back the rules that prevent the kind of recklessness
that got our economy into this mess in the first place.

Well, we've all seen
what happens when you roll back those rules. What happens are rows
of foreclosure signs. What happens are mountains of family debt.
What happens is a middle class that's hurting. That's what we've
seen in towns across California and across this country.

When it comes to the
housing crisis, the choice between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is
clear. The fact is, we don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would
have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we
should let foreclosures—and I quote—"hit the bottom" so the market
could—quote—"run its course."

Run its course. That's
not leadership. Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting.
That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's
not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

Here's what President
Obama did: President Obama won Wall Street reform to prevent any
more taxpayer-funded bailouts. President Obama won credit card
reform so you don't get stuck with hidden fees and sudden rate
hikes. President Obama stood with me and 48 other attorneys general
in taking on the banks and winning $25 billion for struggling
homeowners.

That's leadership!
That's what President Obama did. And that's why we need to give him
another four years. We need to move forward. President Obama will
fight for working families. He will fight to level the economic
playing field and fight to give every American the same fair shot my
family had.

I remember when my
mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She
was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of
Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of
their own home for the first time—the feeling of reaching for
opportunity and finding it.

That's the choice in
this election. It's a choice between an America where opportunity is
open to everyone, where everyone plays by the same set of rules, or
a philosophy that tilts the playing field to help the wealthiest
few. A choice between holding Wall Street accountable or letting it
write its own rules. Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic
that says the American dream belongs to some of us, but not all of
us.

Well, I'll tell you
whom the American dream belongs to. It belongs to the student in
Sacramento who doesn't have much money but who goes to bed each
night dreaming big dreams. It belongs to the men and women across
this country who know it shouldn't be against the law to marry the
person you love.

It belongs to the
immigrants, young and old, who come to this country in search of a
better life. And it belongs to little girls who have the joy of
watching their mother, like I did, buy her first home.

The American dream
belongs to all of us. And if we can work together and stand together
and vote together on November 6 for President Barack Obama, that's a
dream we will put within reach of all our people!